Visiting Speakers

Tamara Griggs is a research scholar at Harvard's Humanities Center and a lecturer in History and Literature.

Linda Hall is Associate Professor of English at Skidmore College.

Erik Hammerstrom teaches about religion in China and East Asia, with a focus on Buddhism.

Susan Howe is the author of several books of poems and two volumes of criticism.

Turkuler Isiksel (Ph.D., Yale) works in contemporary political theory and is particularly interested in political institutions beyond the nation-state.

Jonathon S. Kahn (A.B. Princeton University; Ph.D., Columbia University 2003) is Associate Professor of Religion and teaches in the areas of religion and modern philosophy (with special interest in American pragmatism and religious naturalism, and the emergence of secularism); theories of religion and nationalism; and race, religion and democratic theory. His research has focused on illumining the place of religious moods and virtues in the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois.

Hagar Kotef is Assistant Professor, Gender Studies at  Bar Ilan University and an affiliate of the Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University. She works on political theory, specializing in feminist theory, early liberal philosophy, women’s activism and contemporary continental philosophy.

Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University.  He specializes in 20th-Century European political, economic, and social history.